Skirt-marker.



A. WINKLER. SKIRT MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE \3. 916.

Patented July 31, 1917.

/Z. W511 Z be UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH WINKLER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SKIRT-MARKER.

Application filed .Tune 13, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLPH WINKLER, holding my first papers for admission as a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Markers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for marking and gaging skirts and like garments and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efiiciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a simply constructed device whereby a skirt or like garment may be simultaneously gaged and marked and the device adjusted to any desired degree and the parts collapsed for transportation or storage.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure l is a side elevation of the improved device, partly in section, showing the parts in distended relation;

Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the chalk holding portion of the improved device;

Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the combined gage and guide;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional detail illustrating the manner of locking the extension members to the body of the standard;

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating another manner of employing the im proved device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a base 10 sufficiently heavy to support the standard and to prevent its being too easily overturned and formed with a hollow upper side represented at 11 and a threaded plug 12 rising from the center of the hollow portion. The hollow portion 11 is designed as a receptacle for pins and like instruments.

The improved device likewise comprises a tubular standard member 13 internally threaded at one end to engage over the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Serial No. 103,571.

Slidably disposed in the tubular standard member 13 is an extension rod 14. The rod .14 is provided with a longitudinally directed recessl5 near its lower end in which a spring 16 is riveted, or otherwise secured at 17, the spring being provided with a push button or knob which is adapted to extend through a slot, indicated at 19, in the tubular standard 13. The slot 19 is located near the upper end of the standard and when the rod 14 is elevated the knob 18 will be forced through the slot 19 by the force of the spring 16, and thus lock the rod in position relative to the standard, as shown in Fig. 4. The recess 15 will be of sufficient depth to enable the stud or knob 18, together with its spring 16 to be entirely collapsed within the recess and thus enable the rod 14 to be forced downwardly into the tubular standard, as shown in Fig. 5, and then when the rod is to be distended it will only be necessary to draw it upwardly until the knob or button 18 arrives opposite the slot 19 when the reaction of the spring will force the knob or button outwardly into the slot and thus lock the rod in its upward position.

The standard 13 and the rod 14 may be of any required length to adapt the improved device to skirts and like garments of various lengths, and may be of any suitable material, of any suitable size or strength. v

Slidably disposed upon the standard 13 or the rod 14 as may be required, is a combined gage and guide, illustrated more particularly in Fig. 3, and comprising a vertical portion 20 and a horizontal portion 21. The free end of the horizontal portion 21 is formed of spaced sides 22 perforated to receive the standard 13 or the rod 14, as the case may be. The apertures through the portion 21 of the combined guide and standard are large enough to receive the tubular standard 13 and a set screw 23 is tapped through the portion 22 and adapted to engage the standard 13, as shown in Fig. 5, or the rod 14, as shown in Fig. 1. The set screw 23 will be of sufficient length so that either the rod 14 or the standard 13 may be engaged thereby and thus hold the combined guide and gage member adjustably connected to either the rod or the standard, as will be obvious.

A crayon holding device likewise forms a part of the improved device and is illustrated more particularly in perspective in Fig. 2, and comprises a U-shaped member bent intermediate its ends to form sides 2t-25 spaced apart and perforated to engage over the standard 13 or the rod 14:, as may be required. The crayon holding me1nher is provided with a clamp screw 26 similar to the clamp screw 23 and adapted to adjustably connect the crayon holder to either the rod or the standard in the same manner as the combined guide and gage are connected. At their free ends the sides 2a25 are preferably increased in width, as shown in Fig. 2, and the edges serrated or formed with teeth 27. The sides 2st25 are likewise provided with a clamp screw 28 to enable the sides to be compressed against a crayon indicated conventionally at 29. The crayon holding member is located above the combined guide and gage as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5, and is adjustable independently of the guide and gage.

The device as a whole may be employed for determining the position of the bottom of the skirt or like garment by adjusting the combined guide and gage 20-21 until the horizontal portion 21 is even with the bottom of the skirt with the portion 20 in side of the skirt, a portion of the latter being indicated conventionally at 30. The crayon holder is then adjusted to bring the crayon 29 at the point at which the skirt is to be cut off or marked for trimming or other purposes and the implement moved over the floor around the skirt, or the person wearing the skirt caused to turn about, or the form upon which the skirt is supported rotated, as the case may be. It will be obvious that the portion 20 acts as a guard or stop to hold the material of the skirt in position for the action of the crayon, and likewise holds the skirt away from the petticoat or other garment.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be adjusted to any desired height and the crayon holder adjusted to any degree relative to the combined guide and guard.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a device of the class described, a vertical standard, a combined gage and guide device including a vertical portion and slidably engaging the standard, a crayon holding device formed from a sheet of resilient metal in U shape to produce spaced portions adapted to hold a crayon and apertured to receive the standard, means for clamping the crayon holding device to the standard, and means for compressing the sides of the crayon holding device against the crayon.

In a device of the class described, a base having a dishing upper face and a threaded stud, a tubular standard threaded to engage said stud, a rod telescopically engaging the tubular standard, locking means engaging said tubular standard and rod, a combined gage and guide device comprising a vertical portion and a horizontal portion adapted to slidably engage either the tubular standard or the rod, and a crayon holding device slid ably engaging either the tubular standard or the rod and coacting with the combined guide and gage device.

3. In a device of the class described, a vertical standard, crayon holding device formed from a sheet of resilient metal in U shape to form spaced portions adapted to hold a crayon and apertured to receive the standard, means for clamping the crayon holding device to the standard, and means for compressing the sides of the crayon holding device against the crayon.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature.

ADOLIII IVINKLER. [1,. s.]

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